Picasso on art: a selection of views
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“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction”
“You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.”
“Style is the difference between a circle and the way you draw it.”
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
“Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.”
“All things considered, there is only Matisse.”
Source: Picasso posters
“A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.”
Source: Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections
“For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
Source: Picasso: style and meaning
“A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.”
Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections
Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections
“There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.”
“Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.”
“If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.”